MRIO for multiple counties and the state

I am trying to wrap my head around what I need to do to get at this. Let's say I have three contiguous counties (A, B, and C) that represents a region in a state. Within each of those three counties, a restaurant chain plans to open stores. County A gets 1 new store. County B gets 2 stores. County C gets 4 stores. Each store is about $500,000 to build. I want to measure the impact of the construction in the three counties, but include the spillovers from the other two counties as well. To me, the first part seems to require 6 MRIO models...AB, AC, BA, BC, CA, CB. The impact on the remainder of the state is the total of all construction from all new stores inside the region with the state as the state (less the three counties) as the second region in that last model...then add up appropriately to get the effects within each county...for example, there is the impact in A from building in A, but there is also the impact in A from building in B and C, captured by the lower part of the MRIO for BA and CA. Does this sound correct? thanks
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  • Hi William, Thank you for your post. You are correct in your MRIO methodology of looking at counties A,B&C and having 6 MRIO models. The 2nd part to your question, regarding looking at the impact of the new stores in the three counties on the rest of the state is a little fuzzy. I recommend, taking the same total of the Event Value for each restaurant, using all three counties as the study region and then doing an MRIO on the Rest of the state (subtracting those three counties). I recommend looking at the following article: https://implan.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=460 Thanks!
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  • I think I have a similar question, but on a much larger scale... I've been asked to estimate the impact on each of 115 counties in the state of Missouri of a change in labor income in each county. That is there are 115 events (one in each county) and I need to find the impact of [i]all [/i]those events in [i]each [/i]county (i.e. 115 sets of results) Reading the previous post I'm afraid that I'm going to have to make a truly absurd number of models... Any advice? Thanks.
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  • Hello, IMPLAN MRIO only supports 10 linkages, or ten models. What we would suggest is dividing the counties up into regions, and linking those regions together. If you want to run a county against a 'rest of state' county aggregated model, you can setup IMPLAN to batch build your models using the Batch Model Template. http://implan.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=685:batch-model-processing&catid=230:KB13
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